Short reads, I swear
Things that I wrote
Articles on UX, UI and systemic design
Building components for scale
Design systems are built around component libraries, it's their core. How you choose to build those components is critical.
- Nov 5, 2025 - 4 min readNew
Your core design system value is for your business to decide
A design system is many things, but the one thing that will keep it afloat is its business value.
- Oct 3, 2025 - 4 min read
DS failures - All-in on a dedicated team
Part one: having a dedicated team is not enough. It is useful, but without company support, it will fail.
- Oct 18, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Getting satisfied with your communication
Part two: starting with a strong communication is great. Keeping it up is hard, but mandatory.
- Oct 17, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Targeting the wrong champions
Part three: building a DS is asking a lot to many people. Make sure you know who will have the most impact.
- Oct 16, 2022 - 4 min read
DS failures - Making it personal
Part four: likes and dislikes in the workplace are tough. Find your balance or you might make it harder than it needs to be.
- Oct 15, 2022 - 4 min read
Supernova: use design tokens in code, with Figma as a source of truth
Design tokens are powerful in our design tools, but we must reliably launch them into our codebases as well.
- Apr 2, 2022 - 8 min read
Theming: an abstraction for design tokens
Design tokens can carry the load of your theming needs when semantics are involved.
- Nov 10, 2021 - 10 min read
UX Files - The UX of waiting
Everything online requires some patience, but how do we make it part of the experience?
- Jul 10, 2021 - 8 min read
UI debt is part of our technical debt
We often want to rewrite logical code, but our UI as well needs care.
- May 25, 2021 - 8 min read
UX Files - Coding buttons
Buttons are everywhere, and they're surprisingly interesting to code.
- Mar 23, 2021 - 10 min read
UX Files - The UI of buttons
Let's design buttons that work for the patterns we've settled on.
- Mar 1, 2021 - 8 min read
UX Files - The UX of buttons
The web is full of buttons, what shall we make of them?
- Mar 1, 2021 - 6 min read
Is it really a design system?
Diving deep into the definition of the evasive Design System.
- Jan 19, 2021 - 9 min read
UX Files - Coding notification toasts (part 2)
Second part of our deep dive on building Toasts
- Dec 23, 2020 - 9 min read
UX Files - Coding notification toasts
Let's build our notification toast to fit our UX and UI guidelines.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 8 min read
UX Files - The UI of notification toasts
How should a Toast look like if it's going to fulfill its mission.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 12 min read
UX Files - The UX of notification toasts
Checking up on why somebody somewhere might want to use a Toast.
- Dec 23, 2020 - 6 min read